Hi, I've been having this same problem for 3 weeks now. Every time I try and start TF2, I have to wait for a good 10 minutes until steam "Validates" it's cache files. I could use some help on how to PERMANENTLY rid myself of this annoying problem. Thanks.

Same issue, although it was worse a year ago, when the files were done validating it used to say steam server were too busy no matter what and then when you clicked on TF2 again it went right back to validating files and saying the server was too busy. I'm just glad that the game launches in the end now.

Hi, I've been having this same problem for 3 weeks now. Every time I try and start TF2, I have to wait for a good 10 minutes until steam "Validates" it's cache files. I could use some help on how to PERMANENTLY rid myself of this annoying problem. Thanks.